The Liberation of Skopje is an Australian television film released in on 9 April 1981 in Serbo-Croatian language. It is also known as Oslobodenje Skoplja or KPGT which is about the liberation of Skopje prison.Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p100
Plot Zoran is an eight-year-old boy who sees the German occupy Skopje, Vardar Macedonia in 1942. His father Dushan is a member of the partisan forces and his uncle, Georgij plays a part in the assassination of a high ranking German officer, as well as in the evacuation and transport of Jews to the free territories.
Cast
Rade Serbedzija as Georgij Potevski Sasa Kuzmanovic as Zoran Inge Appelt as Lence Miljenko Brlecic as Bale Ratko Buljan as Doktor Darko Curdo as Chief Bulgarian Police Antonia Cutic as Ana Tone Gogala as Stojcev Dragoljub Lazarov as Gospodinov
Production It was based on a Yugoslavian play of the same name which won the 28th Annual Village Voice 1983 Obie Award for Special Citations Off Broadway in New York and toured Australia in 1980.1980 Sydney Morning Herald article on the play accessed 12 July 2013 The film was produced by Ferryman Television with an estimated production budget of 100,000 AUD. Scenes were shot in locations such as Sydney and New South Wales.
See also Capture of Skopje (1944)
References
External links
The Liberation of Skopje at Macedonian Film Fund